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"No personalities shall be published in a paper I control." "The Reading Public adore personalities and puerilities." "They can go to the Daily Whale for them, then." "Isn't that rather a personal remark?" "Let me say that if you are occasionally personal, you are never, under any circumstances, anything but clever." "Thank you. But, oh! the difference between what I am and what I aspired to be!"
Gamaches had been to the army with the Duc do Bourgogne, and being a free-tongued man had often spoken out very sharply on the puerilities in which he indulged in company with the Duc de Berry, influenced by his example.
With all the world weeping over the doubtful fate of this little child, you can not expect me to to make any promise conditional upon her death." The man's cry drove the irony of the situation out of my mind. "Puerilities! all puerilities. A man's life soul are worth some sacrifices.
His talks and dictations on this controversial subject are unorthodox if you like, but nevertheless religious; copious in thought and trenchant in vocabulary, they disclose the magic of a well-stored inspired mind. He indulges in neither puerilities nor conventionalities.
"And the women?" she ventured, looking at him sidewise. In those remote walled towns they still remained invisible. Their minds, restricted to puerilities, had never grown up. Their bodies were so lax that their short weekly promenade to the cemetery exhausted them.
Old papers, too, drew him by their very mildew; and when his townsfolk were in danger of respecting him too tediously, they recalled these amiable puerilities, drew a breath of relief, and marked his value down. Many facts in his life were not in the least understood, because he never saw the possibility of talking about them.
The exalted characters, the austere laws, the energetic virtues, the graceful mythology, the thrilling eloquence of antiquity, were annihilating the puerilities of the old Italian rhymes, and creating purer and nobler tastes.
Ha! mine is not yet disabused of this belief. I am older now, but the hour of disenchantment has not yet come upon me nor ever will. There is a romance in life, that is no illusion. It lives not in the effete forms and childish ceremonies of the fashionable drawing-room it has no illustration in the tinsel trappings and gaudy puerilities of a Court.
Notwithstanding many affectations and puerilities it is still readable to Americans.
There were classic affectations in England, there were masks and mummeries and classic puerilities at court and in noble houses Elizabeth's court would well have liked to be classical, remarks Guizot but Shakespeare was not fettered by classic conventionalities, nor did he obey the unities, nor attempt to separate on the stage the tragedy and comedy of life "immense and living stage," says the writer I like to quote because he is French, upon which all things are represented, as it were, in their solid form, and in the place which they occupied in a stormy and complicated civilization.
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